Part of an occasional series about phrases that this therapist finds himself repeating, often. As a clinician in private practice, one of the phrases that I hear myself saying sometimes is this: “Handle the emotion first, then talk.” This is another of those multi-purpose phrases, having applications with couples and other relationships, but maybe most clearly […]

writer, clinical social worker, spiritual director, husband, father, son, and runner in Middle Georgia, co-author of When Anxiety Strikes: Help and Hope for Managing the Storm (Fall 2020), sole author of When a Grain of Wheat Falls: A Dying Father, a Changing Son, a Lenten Journey.